Viet Film Fest 2022

Pulling Through (High School Community Screening)

Expired October 19, 2022 6:59 AM
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8 films in package
Fourth Block
Mary, a competitive, intelligent, and self-reliant student, is paired with a partner she cannot depend on for the biggest exam in EMT academy.
Thunderclouds
While growing up, Lily and her family celebrate Tet by going to the festival every year.
The Greatest Poem
A search for identity, meaning, and belonging as a mixed-race American
All I Ever Wanted
Mom (Mẹ)
A young Vietnamese-American girl struggles to communicate to her immigrant mom about an altercation with a bully and in the end, realizes that there are other ways to convey her feelings.
Exposed
An international student reveals despicable truth about her host family with a school counselor.
Taste of Home (Stinkfrucht)
Mai, a Vietnamese girl who was trafficked to Germany, needs to earn money for her family in Vietnam, but is exploited and sold on by her smugglers.
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In this free screening intended for high school students (but also free for all other viewers), each of these seven films explore what it means to be oneself despite societal, familial, and personal challenges. All I Ever Wanted considers dreams of romance and how reality might offer unexpected opportunities. Exposed and Mom both explore the importance of speaking up, no matter how difficult. Taste of Home grapples with the choice between freedom and family. Connecting these films together is the question of how one can be true to themselves. Through a variety of topics including bullying, romance, art, tradition, and self-acceptance, these films consider the various ways in which we come of age.

MAI (17), a Vietnamese girl who was trafficked to Germany, needs to earn money for her family in Vietnam, but is exploited and sold on by her smugglers. She flees and asks her new Viet-German friend LINH (11) for help, whose mother is part of the system herself. Suddenly, not only Mai but also Linh is finding herself torn between Freedom and Family.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    29 minutes
  • Language
    German, Vietnamese
  • Country
    Germany
  • Director
    Âni Võ
  • Producer
    Max Wallner, Tobias Bissinger, Âni Võ.
  • Cast
    Ngọc Nhi Hà Trần, Nhung Hong, Thị Lê Thanh Hồ and Yung Ngo.
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